Camping Dishes:what dishes are necessary when backpacking.

Save weight and
money when choosing camping dishes for your next backpacking trip. Neat ideas, plus great recipes and gear ideas
when you’re in the woods.

When backpacking and camping, I like to bring
ONLY the necessary dishes for a trip. I
once brought someone on an interior canoe trip, and didn’t go through their
stuff before the trip. Their pack and
gear (which we both carried on portages) was SUPER heavy as they brought extra
unnecessary stuff. Kitchen stuff can be
cut back easily.

Here’s a list of camping dishes you can bring to make a
camping kitchen include: Plate, Bowl,
Cup, mug, spoon, fork, knife (plus camping cooking gear which I have another
page for). But… you don’t need to haul
ALL of that around on your back.

What do I eat off
of?

When I’m doing
backpacking or interior canoeing, I only take camping bowls. The reason that I only bring a bowl is that
anything that can be eaten on a plate, can also be eaten from a bowl. This is a bowl that I recommend, as I am not
a fan of plastics as they leach plastic molecules.

If a plate is
particularly important for you, there are a couple options that I would
recommend. You could use the lid of your
pots. Another option is that I know some
people that like to use frizbees for plates.
They clean them up, and use them as a plate and then after supper they
clean up for a great activity and thing to eat off of. Multi-purpose is the name of the game when I
camp! Personally though, I don’t ever
bring plates, as I like to travel light and feel that it’s just extra
weight.

What utensil do I
use?

What do I use to
drink?

To drink, I
usually just use my Water bottle. (check out my favourite water bottle
choice). When I am traveling with a
group, we will bring a few mugs for anyone that lights hot beverages. There are several mugs that I would recommend: